Unable to create and connect to own docker registry

I'm trying to host a private docker registry.

I've followed: https://docs.docker.com/registry/ to create my own registry?

But when running:

    curl http://127.0.0.1:5000

It exits without error, but without result either.

You get an empty answer, because nothing is on the root context of your registry. If curl would fail to connect, you would get an error message. So either try

curl -I http://127.0.0.1:5000

which shows the headers returned from your curl statement (should be HTTP/1.1 200 OK) or

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/_catalog

which lists the repositories of your registry. A query to an empty registry should output something like this:

{"repositories":[]}